Baby Shower summer 2011

Four people and three very different experiences ahead for each. One emotion to be shared by all in the future will be Joy.

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The OC aka its original name Orange County; and here’s proof. This was the usual sight in Orange County years ago when Knotts Berry farm was something more like Tom’s Farms and Disney was a place that was quite possibly really the happiest place on earth at least some of the time.

Another video turned photo for Orange County photography. | Jacksonville Chiropractic

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Just another grab from the video I shot one morning walking around in Orange County turned into a photograph. The Canon T2i produces some pretty good photography even when in video mode.

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Is it any wonder I like living in Orange County? Photography opportunities all year and green winters with just the right touch of snow- far from me and on the San Gabriel Mountains where it belongs.

Wedding photography

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She almost always seems to be smiling at least a little bit.

Photographed at the twins’ birthday party in Fullerton’s Craig Park.

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I just purchased iMovie 11, I mean, it was pretty cheap in the new Apple App Store where you could buy it for $14.99, so I figured risk was minimal.

Now, lets see what new features and performance we find.

I’ll just update this as we go along.

OK, installation completed with not a finger lifted after I clicked the buy button in the app store. The App “flew” down to the dock (task bar area for you curious Windows users) and that’s the last I heard of it until I fired it up.

The App launched, and looked for new videos in my iPhoto library. Then it asked to generate thumbnails. OK, this we did, a process that always takes a while since we’re actually rendering tiny versions of all the video found in the iPhoto library.

Now I’m going to cut right to the chase on why I bought iMovie 11 and why I’m pleased with the result. As y’all prolly knowwww, iMovie and iPhoto like to gobble up all your files and stick them inside a volume “library” that isn’t too friendly about being invaded by finder or other processes, but I like to manage my files in multiple directories and multiple drives. My iPhoto is set to not import, but to reference files in their original locations, but iMovie was always “set on kill” for that idea. Anything to be used in iMovie had to be copied or moved into its stores.

I hate that.

No more. iMovie picked up all my external video files from iPhoto and now shows them in the iPhoto event library.

Cool. I’m much more likely to use iMovie now that I can keep files where I want.

Other features have been well covered- I’ll post about them here too, but for now, I’ll publish, so check back for more if my impressions and mini-reviews of iMovie 11.

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Downtown Fullerton embodies amazingly comfortable contradiction that blends the old and new all at once in a unique convergence of college life and history. One of the main train stops during the area’s oil industry days, Fullerton has retained many of its old landmarks from the train station to the police station, not to mention Fullerton College where students arrived in canoes in the hundred year flood of 1938, when most of Orange County found itself flooded. Fullerton shops restaurants and entertainment share a long tradition of blending new and old. The day I took this video, we ate at Rutabegorz, established 40 years ago and still serving up 70s fare in a 90s environment- solar powered. Plummer Auditorium finished up the night in an excellent dress rehearsal of Brigadoon. Shot with the new Canon 550D T2i, which I’m still learning. The creative modes are every bit as varied as you expect from an SLR camera.

Dave Keys, photographer in OC and Temecula

visit: PGA National Resort and Spa in Palm Beach Gardens

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Every summer, the sidewalk artists of the Temecula area gather and put their chalk down to the pavement and produce a cornucopia of styles, colors and themes in art in Old Town. This year is shaping up to please the crowds. Artists from six to way more than six produce their work today and tomorrow. Some are shaping up to be stunning renditions and sure to please, while others had their place but had not shown up by time I left at 2PM.

Orange County Photographers

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For those of you who were at the graduation, here are my pictures: Graduation Photos

Sorry, but you’ll have to thumb through the photos for your own. I’m not publishing names of school children. I hope you all have a life at least twice as happy as the smiles showed you were feeling that day. Come see us! We’ll be in room 23 next school year.

Para aquellos de ustedes que estuvieron en la graduación, aquí están mis fotos: Graduation Photos

Lo sentimos, pero usted tiene que hojear las fotos para su cuenta. Yo no estoy publicando los nombres de los escolares. Espero que todos ustedes tienen una vida por lo menos dos veces tan feliz como las sonrisas mostró usted se sentía ese día. ¡Venga a vernos! Estaremos en habitación 23 el próximo año escolar.

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This is a followup on my previous blog entitled How I Went From Page 35 to Page 3 in Fifteen Minutes – Orange County SEO

In the post, I cited the importance of the Title tag on a website and the difference it can make in a hurry. I had a photography website that I had neglected and let languish for months. I’ve been focused on many SEO projects and just didn’t bother with the photo website. Frankly, I’d been getting exposure for my side-work of photography through my real estate contacts and YouTube videos on my photography.

This website had ranked on page one for “Orange County Photographers” until I decided to abandon the position and really convert davekeys.com to what it should be, an SEO and web strategies focused website.

Last week I was reviewing in my ADHD way, lots of things and gave the photography angle a quick look and noticed my website, Pennycafe.com had dropped out of sight. Where was that website?

Page 35. Yep, almost as if “penalized” by Google. Taking a closer look at things, I noted that the title wasn’t very specific and decided to streamline it, and to be honest, I swapped the theme for one a little less “noisy” and, finally, added a new post (a photograph and a few lines about it).

I’m guessing the real difference was the title text. It usually is.

caveat: you might read this, and check for ranking, my ranking for orange county photographers may appear page two because that’s the nature of a new changes in competitive SERPs and results vary by whatever Google datacenter you may query. As I cited previously on my “page 3″ post, the position today or tomorrow is relatively unimportant compared to long-term placement and the dramatic shift achieved by simply adjusting the website title.

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